Top 20 Wordpress Plugins - Forum Membership

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If you want your WordPress website to be at the top of the game for forums, membership, social media integration, powerful administration – interface tools then these are the “must have” plugins.

Page Restrict: NEW Restrict certain pages to logged in users. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pagerestrict/

Simple:Press Forum: NEW Fully featured but simple page-based forum. http://simple-press.com/

Adminimize: NEW Visually compresses the administrative meta-boxes so that more admin page content can be initially seen. The plugin that lets you hide ‘unnecessary’ items from the WordPress administration menu, for all roles of your install. You can also hide post meta controls on the edit-area to simplify the interface. It is possible to simplify the admin in different for all roles. http://bueltge.de/wordpress-admin-theme-adminimize/674/

Admin Trim Interface: NEW Customize the WordPress admin pages by selectively removing interface elements. http://akismet.com/

All in One SEO Pack: Out-of-the-box SEO for your WordPress blog. http://semperfiwebdesign.com/

Custom Admin Branding: NEW Allows you to brand your WordPress install for clients. Display custom images and styles for the login screen, admin header and footer. http://www.datafeedr.com/random-ads-plugin/

Delete-Revision: NEW Delete revision post from Database. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/delete-revision/

Easy Contact: NEW Easy Contact is a simple, semantic contact form that utilizes the Sandbox design patterns. http://www.plaintxt.org/experiments/easy-contact/

Email Immunizer: Protect email addresses and mailto links on your blog from email harvesters. http://guff.szub.net/2005/08/23/email-immunizer/

Exec-PHP: Executes < ?php ?> code in your posts, pages and text widgets. http://bluesome.net/post/2005/08/18/50/

Google Integration Toolkit: Integrate Google services (Analytics, Webmaster Tools, etc.) with Your Blog. http://www.poradnik-webmastera.com/projekty/google_integration_toolkit/

Google XML Sitemaps: This plugin will generate a sitemaps.org compatible sitemap of your WordPress blog which is supported by Ask.com, Google, MSN Search, Bing, and YAHOO. http://www.arnebrachhold.de/projects/wordpress-plugins/google-xml-sitemaps-generator/

Login-Logout: NEW Adds a user friendly widget to make login/logout easy. Compatible WP 2.7+. Available in English, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish and Persian. http://www.thehypervisor.com/login-logout-changelog/

Number of View: NEW A simple plugin to show the number of hits of particular post and page. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/number-of-view/

Redirector: Redirect any page to an internal or external URL. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/redirector/

Simple Post Template: Fills edit box with post template (including title) of your choosing automatically for new posts. http://clifgriffin.com/2008/10/28/simple-post-template-wordpress-plugin/

Sexybookmarks: Adds a (X)HTML compliant list of social bookmarking icons to each of your posts. http://sexybookmarks.net/

WassUp: WordPress plugin to analyze your visitors traffic with real time stats, chart and a lot of chronological information. http://www.wpwp.org/

Subscribe To Comments: NEW Allows readers to receive notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry. http://txfx.net/wordpress-plugins/subscribe-to-comments/

WP-DBManager: NEW On-demand backup of your WordPress database. Manages your WordPress database. Allows you to optimize database, repair database, backup database, restore database, delete backup database , drop/empty tables and run selected queries. Supports automatic scheduling of backing up and optimizing of database.http://lesterchan.net/portfolio/programming/php/

WP Auto Tagger: Automatically finds tags based on your post content. http://wordpresssupplies.com/wordpress-plugins/auto-tagger/

About the Author

Chris is a proven Sales Veteran that currently holds the positions of VP of Sales at DataTel Communications and President of Lottspace.com. Web Designer and established Sales Success Author. Dad

Is a first impression critical?

Yes… but not any more than a second impression. You see I have learned, and practice, the art of second impression. I know that as I meet someone for the first time they have analyzed and summed me up as lacking. It’s just how we’re wired and it starts at birth. According to researchers at the University of Texas, babies like pretty faces better than plain ones. As we grow older this doesn’t change. Advertising has beautiful people peddling wares… on purpose. We all like pretty faces. So… how in the world can the rest of us compete? It’s by achieving a great second impression or as I like to call it i2. Let me share. You see for me it started around 5th grade. That’s when I found out I had a debilitating muscle-skin disease. It quickly became apparent that brains’ was going to have to win over brawn and where I learned my first lesson or first stage of i2. I would focus on learning. In other words I would develop some depth to my personality. I would become interesting and useful. As I hit the dating age I decided that to attract a desirable female I needed “skills”. Dale Carnegie came to the rescue with his book - How to Win Friends & Influence People. This was one of the most influential books in developing my life and later sales skills. It was also where I developed the second stage of i2. I learned that people really like to talk about themselves… a very useful tool. In listening I could gather intelligent data that I could respond to with interesting and useful information. I would go instantly from frumpy guy to “Wow, I like and need this person” and i2 is achieved! The by-products of these stages are tenacity, creativity, confidence, caring, and purpose… among others. Traits that I believe everyone wants in some form or other. I continually work on my presentation. As I get older I realize that I have my work cut out to relate with the younger potential clients. Now I’m faced with a first impression of “looks like my dad”. The good news is i2 applies here as well as long as I am interesting, useful, and listen. While having “pearly whites and perfect hair” does give you a great first impression… I have found that i2 is even more important and why many that rely on just their looks fail. Dress sharp, look your best, is always important and I am not belittling that here. Education, self taught or scholastically, is as critical. Listening is a key element. Put these together and you will be in command and achieve i2 success regardless of what your first impression is.

james.c.jackson

Posted August 22, 2009 at 4:37 PM

Chris,

Thanks for this great list of plugins. I use several of them regularly but had not heard of a couple of them. I’ll be investigating them after I finish typing.

Regarding Sociable: Is that what you’re using here on the site? If so, where did you get those nifty animated icons? They’re TOO cool!

Chris Lott

Posted August 22, 2009 at 9:22 PM

james, I am no longer using sociable. I had some issues with mail, rss, and print among others. I am now using sexybookmarks. I just updated this article with the links and changes. Have fun.

Posted August 24, 2009 at 12:54 PM

Thanks for the info, Chris. I’ll go have a look at sexybookmarks now.

silence

Posted February 21, 2010 at 5:07 PM

Hello there. I just set up my first wordpress website and found your site on the Arras Theme Community Forums. I am glad that I did and it’s nice to see your site providing such useful info. I am constantly looking to find out what plug-ins I should be using. I see several here that I am eager to use. This page will be very helpful to me in the future. Thank you…

Posted February 22, 2010 at 6:10 AM

silence… The arras theme is a great place to start. There are some bugs like any other but the support forum is incredible. I have updated the article you read with some really powerful plugins. I am glad you are finding lottspace a useful resource.

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